Preparation of Passive Avoidance Apparatus and Flies Preparation for Passive Avoidance Procedure
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Performing the First and Second Trials
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Results: Representative Results for Passive Avoidance Behavior Assay
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Conclusion
Transcript
This protocol describes a simple behavioral assay that allows for studying adverse associative learning and memory consolidation in flies, including effects of gene environment interactions. The assay presented here is a simple, reproducible, and
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This work describes a simple behavioral paradigm that allows the analysis of aversive associative learning in adult fruit flies. The method is based on suppressing the innate negative geotaxis behavior due to the association formed between a specific environmental context and an electric shock.